Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica
Volume 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 446-454

Children and adolescents' commercial sexual exploitation: Comparing truck drivers clients and non-clients of sexual "services" [Exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes: Uma análise comparativa entre caminhoneiros clientes e não-clientes do comércio sexual] (Article) (Open Access)

Cerqueira-Santos E.* , Morais N.A. , Moura A.S. , Koller S.H.
  • a Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2600, Porto Alegre, RS 90035-003, Brazil
  • b Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2600, Porto Alegre, RS 90035-003, Brazil
  • c Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2600, Porto Alegre, RS 90035-003, Brazil
  • d Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2600, Porto Alegre, RS 90035-003, Brazil

Abstract

This study aims at comparing two groups of truck drivers, clients and non-chents of children and adolescents' commercial sexual exploitation (ESCA). Interviews were conducted with 239 truck drivers in different areas of Brazil. The data were analyzed statistically by inferential and descriptive analyses. The comparison between the groups showed that those who said they were clients of ESCA (n = 85) use to have a higher loading time than the ones in the other group (n = 154). Moreover, the clients use to utilize more prostitutes' services and have less knowledge of children's rights. However, the profiles of both groups were very similar, according to demographic and professional data. This study highlighted the circumstantial featur of the relationship between the truck drivers and the children and adolescents' commercial sexual exploitation.

Author Keywords

Commercial sexual exploitation truck drivers Children and adolescent

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-61349150603&doi=10.1590%2fS0102-79722008000300013&partnerID=40&md5=015d89c1ae2e75be680722ead49fe300
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-79722008000300013
ISSN: 01027972
Cited by: 5
Original Language: Portuguese